The Spanish fleet thou canst not see, because—it is not yet in sight! - Richard Brinsley Sheridan

No caparisons, miss, if you please. Caparisons don't become a young woman.

LADY TEAZLE. And I am sure I was a Fooll to marry you — an old dangling Batchelor, who was single of [at] fifty — only because He never could meet with any one who would have him. SIR PETER. Aye — aye — Madam — but you were pleased enough to listen to me — you never had such an offer before — LADY TEAZLE. No — didn’t I refuse Sir Jeremy Terrier — who everybody said would have been a better Match — for his estate is just as good as yours — and he has broke his Neck since we have been married!

Take our constitution, wanting certainly as it did many reforms, yet, practically, it afforded the best security that human wisdom had ever given to man.